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Don't Touch the White Woman!

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Don't Touch the White Woman! is a 1974 French-Italian farce, an absurdist Western set in Paris, directed by Marco Ferreri.[2]

Don't Touch the White Woman!
Directed byMarco Ferreri
Produced byJean-Pierre Rassam
Jean Yanne
Alain Sarde
François Rochas
Written byMarco Ferreri
Rafael Azcona
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
Catherine Deneuve
Darry Cowl
Alain Cuny
Ugo Tognazzi
Michel Piccoli
Philippe Noiret
Paolo Villaggio
Franca Bettoia
Monique Chaumette
Francine Custer
Music byPhilippe Sarde
CinematographyÉtienne Becker
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Distributed byImage Entertainment
Release date
23 January 1974
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office$1,402,866[1]

Plot

A fictionalized version of Custer's Last Stand set at a real Paris, France building site. Marcello Mastroianni stars as General George Armstrong Custer. Buffalo Bill Cody (Michel Piccoli) portrays a charlatan media impresario. Ugo Tognazzi gives a fictional portrayal of Mitch Bouyer one of Custer's Native American scouts, who runs a business selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their apartment building homes are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The film climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market once was.

Cast

  • Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Hélène de Boismonfrais

  • Marcello Mastroianni - George A. Custer

  • Michel Piccoli - Buffalo Bill

  • Philippe Noiret - Gen. Terry

  • Ugo Tognazzi - Mitch

  • Alain Cuny - Sitting Bull

  • Serge Reggiani - The Mad Indian

  • Darry Cowl - Major Archibald

  • Monique Chaumette - Sister Lucie

  • Daniele Dublino - Daughter

  • Henri Piccoli - Sitting Bull's Father

  • Franca Bettoia - Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)

  • Paolo Villaggio - The CIA agent

  • Franco Fabrizi - Tom (as Franco Fabrizzi)

  • Laurente Vedres - (as Vedres et Boutang)

See also

  • Mr. Freedom

  • Blazing Saddles

  • Revisionist Western

  • Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer

References

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